odalisque in French
odalisque in French is odalisque — odalisque means a woman kept as a slave in a harem, especially in the palace of an Ottoman ruler.
odalisque in French
odalisque
(historical) A female slave in a harem, especially one in the Ottoman seraglio.
What does "odalisque" mean?
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noun A woman kept as a slave in a harem, especially in the palace of an Ottoman ruler.
"The Sector is borne in a padded Waggon, like some mechanickal Odalisque."
- noun A painting of a woman, often nude, shown lying in a rich or exotic setting, meant to look sexually alluring.
- noun A woman regarded as very desirable or sexually attractive.
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odalisque in a sentence
- The Sector is borne in a padded Waggon, like some mechanickal Odalisque.
- Though I could see the titan odalisques and their garden and knew them to be no more than dream-stuff recalled, I could not escape from their fascination and the memory of the dream.
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What is "odalisque" in French?
"odalisque" in French is odalisque. odalisque means: A woman kept as a slave in a harem, especially in the palace of an Ottoman ruler.
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